On Episode 213 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Apollo legend and former Johnson House Heart director Gerry Griffin dwell from the Worldwide House Improvement Convention (ISDC) in McLean, Virginia.
Griffin takes us on a journey by means of his extraordinary profession, from his appointment as a flight director within the wake of the Apollo 1 hearth, by means of the audacious resolution to ship Apollo 8 across the moon, all the way in which to the nail-biting rescue of Apollo 13. We additionally enterprise behind the scenes of Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 movie, the place Griffin reveals the true story behind a few of Hollywood’s most well-known dramatic liberties. It is a uncommon, firsthand account of the golden age of human spaceflight — from one of many few individuals who was there for all of it.
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About This Week In House
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from House.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You may subscribe at the moment in your favourite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle is an creator, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the House Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and quick movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep House 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to varied sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic e book The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com workforce in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He grew to become House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the House Exploration benefit badge), a House Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances overlaying metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
